Crypto Currency

Government officials from CGST Mumbai Zone recovered the funds from crypto exchange WazirX after detecting a GST evasion of $5.43 million on trade commissions. Indian crypto exchange WazirX has reportedly paid over $6.62 million (49.2 crore rupees) following non-payment of Goods and Services Tax (GST) on trade commissions. The total recovery includes the pending tax of $5.43 million (40.5 crore rupees), the interest and a penalty for non-payment. Government officials from the Central GST and Central Excise committee (CGST Mumbai Zone) recovered the funds from the crypto exchange after detecting a GST evasion of $5.43 million on the commissions. A typical GST fraud involves creating fake invoices without actually moving the goods between the seller and the buyer. Officers of CGST Mumbai East comm'te have detected GST Evasion of Rs 40.5 Cr. on commission of Wazir X Crypto Currency & recovered Rs 49.2 Cr. in cash as GST, interest & Penalty today on 30.12.2021 from Zanmai ...

After this year’s monster rally, Bitcoin’s price is at a critical juncture. Analysts expect $100,000 in 2022, but what does technical analysis suggest? Bitcoin ( BTC ) is likely to end 2021 well below analysts’ target projections of $100,000. Kraken CEO Jesse Powell, who had also projected a $100,000 price target for Bitcoin, still remains bullish in the long term, but he does not rule out a sharp drop in the short term .  One of the negatives that may add pressure to Bitcoin in the short term is the shift in the United States Federal Reserve’s monetary policy. On Dec. 15, the Fed announced that it would wind down its bond-buying program at a faster pace, and it also projected three interest rate hikes in 2022. Crypto market data daily view. Source: Coin360 Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist of CFRA Research, told  CNBC that historically, the S&P 500 tends to post negative returns in the 12-month period when the Fed undertakes three or more rate increases. ...

Bitcoin and most major altcoins are attempting a recovery from their strong support levels, indicating that traders continue to buy on dips. Bitcoin ( BTC ) and most major altcoins are attempting a rebound off their respective support levels , indicating that buyers continue to accumulate on dips. Data from Coinglass shows that 9,925 Bitcoin left Coinbase Pro , the professional trading arm of Coinbase, on Dec. 30, a possible sign of institutional buying. This is in sharp contrast to the strong inflows seen in Binance and OKEx. Several analysts believe that institutional buying could pick up in January. Economist and trader Alex Krüger expects a Bitcoin rally in early January based on fund flows. He also highlighted that January has produced positive results for Bitcoin between 2018 and 2021, with gains ranging from 7% to 36%. Daily cryptocurrency market performance. Source: Coin360 While investors debate about the next possible direction of the crypto markets, MicroStrategy h...

There's plenty to celebrate in "up only" Bitcoin beyond short timeframes, analysts conclude on the last day of the year. Bitcoin ( BTC ) chipped away at its latest gains on Dec. 31 as the final trading session of 2021 opened on Wall St. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Bitcoin posts 60% year-to-date gains Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView  tracked BTC/USD as it meandered around the $48,000 mark, having reached multi-day highs of $48,550 hours earlier. The uptick had coincided with the December expiry on Bitcoin options , by far the biggest date on the options calendar at nearly $6 billion. Conspicuous buying was recorded on U.S. professional exchange Coinbase Pro in the run-up to the event. With stocks heading higher in Asia, all eyes were on the potential for a final flourish against a background of concern over inflation in 2022. The S&P 500 broke its 70th all-time high of the year on Dec. 30 at 4,806 points, ...

Decentraland and Paris Hilton plan competing virtual New Year's Eve celebrations, while ProShares plans to launch a metaverse-tracking ETF. Following the announcement that Facebook’s parent company would be rebranding in a shift towards the Metaverse, many projects have started similar initiatives entering the virtual space, from buying property to testing the limits of what this universe has to offer.  Virtual ball drop on NYE The Ethereum-based virtual reality world Decentraland announced on Wednesday that a New Year’s Eve celebration would be taking place in the Metaverse. Grayscale owner Digital Currency Group has partnered with real estate firm Jamestown to create a virtual One Times Square — the iconic New York City location where a giant ball descends on a flagpole, stopping at midnight to mark the start of the new year. The virtual event starting at 11:00 pm EST will feature a live feed of the real Times Square as well as crypto art galleries, games and virtual gather...

U.S. stablecoin issuers might soon face liquidity, customer protection and asset reserve rules — and maybe even a deposit-insurance mandate like banks. Regulators around the world have been thinking seriously about the risks associated with stablecoins since 2019 but recently, concerns have intensified, particularly in the United States.  In November, the United States’ President’s Working Group on Financial Markets, or PWG, issued a key report, raising questions about possible “stablecoin runs” as well as “payment system risk.” The U.S Senate followed up in December with hearings on stablecoin risks. It raises questions: Is stablecoin regulation coming to the U.S. in 2022? If so, will it be “broad stroke” federal legislation or more piecemeal Treasury Department regulation? What impact might it have on non-bank stablecoin issuers and the crypto industry in general? Could it spur a sort of convergence where stablecoin issuers become more like high-tech banks? We are “almost c...

The Cosmos-inspired DeFi platform Umee set records for a Coinlist public sale with nearly one million unique applicants and 63,000 total contributors. Cross chain DeFi hub Umee's token sale on Coinlist has broken the record for user interest on the platform and concluded with nearly $32 million raised. Coinlist reported that more than 922,000 Coinlist accounts had registered for options 1 and 2 of the UMME token sale, which is the highest number ever for a token sale on the platform. In the end around 63,000 accounts contributed. A Medium post from the Umee team yesterday stated that funds will be used to expand the development and engineering teams. The Beta web app for the platform is set to launch “in the coming days,” and the mainnet is scheduled to ship by mid-February. The $32 million raise is reportedly the fifth largest public raise on Coinlist all year. This also puts it among the top public token sale rounds this year with BitDAO (BIT) which raised over $43 millio...

DeepDAO ranks the Uniswap DAO, BitDAO and Lido Finance DAO as the top three in terms of treasury value at $2.9 billion, $2.4 billion and $602 million each. The total combined value of treasuries, or assets under management (AUM) for the use of decentralized autonomous organizations, increased by around 40 times between January and September of 2021. According to data from DAO stats platform DeepDAO, the total AUM for DAO treasuries listed on the platform increased from around $380 million in January to a peak of roughly $16 billion in mid-September. Looking ahead at 2022: ✍️How far and how deep will DAOs go into the mainstream, and into which use cases? ✍️(When) will DAO treasuries exceed $100B? Lots of interesting questions, but together we can BUIDL this! pic.twitter.com/JDEC9JBuHC — DeepDAO.io (@DeepDAO_io) December 30, 2021 As of mid-December, the total AUM has decreased by 28.1% since the high water mark to sit at $11.5 billion, dropping a hefty $3.6 billion over th...

Art gallery owner Todd Kramer had his valuable NFT collection stolen from his hot wallet yesterday, so OpenSea froze the stolen assets worth about $2.2 million. NFT marketplace OpenSea has frozen 16 Bored Ape and Mutant Ape nonfungible tokens (NFT) after they were reportedly stolen yesterday from a New York art gallery operator. In total, one Clonex, seven Mutant Ape Yacht Club, and eight Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs currently valued at about 615 ETH ($2.28 million) were stolen and are now not able to be traded on OpenSea. The toddkramer.eth account, which links to the Ross+Kramer Art Gallery in New York, fired off a series of tweets detailing the 16 NFTs that were stolen from his hot wallet and pleading with OpenSea and the NFT community for help. While the NFT community was often unsympathetic to the trader’s plight, OpenSea froze trading on the stolen items. @gidwellsoon @Tob_Opensea @j1mmy I have been hacked. Please Help Ape 2771 Ape 6416 Ape 1623 Ape 1708 Ape 8214 A...

Clearer regulations around stablecoins could make crypto a more viable investment option, according to the Shark Tank star. Shark Tank celebrity Kevin O’Leary, also known as Mr. Wonderful, says he would be ready to increase his crypto allocations up to 20% as soon as there are clearer regulations around stablecoins.  O’Leary, a former Bitcoin ( BTC ) skeptic, is now a vocal advocate of cryptocurrency, which currently makes up over 10% of his investment portfolio. Mr. Wonderful is particularly focused on U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoins, which he sees as an effective hedge against rising levels of inflation. By staking stablecoins, he pointed out, he can make up to 6% returns. He explained to Cointelegraph:  ​”When inflation is 6%, you're buying power 12 months from now is 6% less. And that's all lot […] I'm a huge advocate for solving this problem with stablecoin.” A clear regulatory framework would allow O’Leary to convert large cash positions into stablecoins. Current...

Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro shows FXS, SXP and GNO posting double-digit gains as BTC bulls look to recover support at $47,500. Volatility is once again the major theme across the cryptocurrency market on Dec. 30 as the price of Bitcoin ( BTC ) bounced back from an early morning dip below $46,000 with bulls now battling bears for control of support near $47,500.  The altcoin market has likewise been a mixed bag of results on Dec. 30, with many of the coins in the top 200 seeing slight losses while the top performers have posted double-digit gains thanks to major protocol developments and acquisitions. Top 7 coins with the highest 24-hour price change. Source: Cointelegraph Markets Pro Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView shows that the biggest gainers over the past 24 hours were Frax Share (FXS), Swipe (SXP) and Gnosis (GNO). Frax Share increases its stablecoin supply Frax Share is the governance token of the Frax protocol, a fractional algorithmi...

The two cryptocurrencies look poised to end 2021 in double-digit percentage losses against Bitcoin. Bitcoin ( BTC ) looks set to beat its forked versions Bitcoin Cash ( BCH ) and Bitcoin SV ( BSV ) in terms of price-performance in 2021, market data shows. Notably, BTC's year-to-date (YTD) returns sat near 60% at press time as its price wobbled near $47,500 . In comparison, BCH rallied a little over 26% to $435.50, while the BSV price plunged over 25% to $122.30 in the same period. But the biggest takeaway remained the performance of Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin SV against Bitcoin. In detail, the BCH/BTC rate declined over 22.50% YTD to 0.00916. Meanwhile, BSV/BTC dipped by nearly 55% YTD to 0.00258 BTC, signaling capital rotations out of Bitcoin forks. BCH/BTC and BSV/BTC daily candle price chart. Source: TradingView Market dominance Additionally, forked Bitcoin tokens — once counted among the top-ten cryptos by market capitalization — lost their positions to the emerging l...

What was the most important thing that happened within the crypto and blockchain space this year? How has it affected the whole industry? Ahmed Al-Balaghi of Biconomy Ahmed is a co-founder of Biconomy, a developer platform that empowers blockchain developers to enable a simplified transaction and onboarding experience for their Web 3.0 project. “The progress made by Ethereum was one of the most outstanding things to come out of 2021, and if all goes as planned, Eth2 will continue to help scale the ecosystem. The milestones reached by Ethereum also paved the way for other protocols to adopt market share, which has created even more innovation industry-wide. The rise of NFTs has also been a great outcome for the industry. It has brought Web 3.0 to the mainstream without branding it as blockchain or crypto.” These quotes have been edited and condensed. The views, thoughts and opinions expressed here are the authors’ alone and do not necessarily reflect or represent the views and opi...

The exchange acquired a majority stake in Swipe in July 2020 as part of a broader effort to advance mainstream adoption of crypto payments. Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, announced Thursday that it will acquire the remaining outstanding shares of Swipe, a prominent crypto Visa card provider. Users of Binance will be able to spend their coins at over 70 million locations worldwide as a result of the acquisition. On July 6, 2020, Binance initially announced the purchase of a majority stake in Swipe , stating that the new collaboration would help to further advance cryptocurrency adoption by bridging fiat and digital assets. Binance's acquisition of Swipe will allow it to compete with other retail crypto providers like PayPal and Mastercard that provide similar cryptocurrency-related services. According to the news, Swipe has been identified as Binance's card program manager and technological platform. Swipe also collaborates with important partners...